
Driving the future of education
2019 ASU + GSV Summit
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ASU+GSV Summit 2019 marked another year of collaboration and inspiration from the world’s leading minds in work and ed tech.
Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA
ASU+GSV Summit 2019 marked another year of collaboration and inspiration from the world’s leading minds in work and ed tech.
Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA
2019 ASU + GSV Summit
We’re driving the future of education — a future that serves learners, institutions, and employers in their quest to boost lifelong employability.
Explore this site for an in-depth look at how we’re leveraging digital innovations to create pathways that help more learners in more circumstances gain the work skills they need throughout their lives.
Featured Sessions
Closing Keynote

Starts at 44:00
A tale of two disruptions: a fireside chat with Michael Moe and John Fallon
What's it like to lead a 175 year old company through one of the biggest industry disruptions in its history? GSV's Michael Moe will interview Pearson CEO, John Fallon, on what he's learnt about disrupting and being disrupted - and how the lessons can help all of us rethink our organisations to enhance employability and embrace lifelong learning.

AI’s Potential to Transform Education
With the pervasive “AI buzz” in the world, it can be hard to discern the substance from the AI public relations. In education, we are seeing substantive applications for automated grading, autonomous learning, learning nudges for marginalized groups, and teaching assistants amongst many others. This group will discuss the potential and perils for AI in education.

The 100-Year Career
The first person to live to 150 years old has already been born. By all accounts, that person will have a career spanning 100 years. Global megatrends such as automation, globalization, and climate change will transform the future employment landscape. What are K–12 educators doing today to help students prepare for this future?
Elearning visionary Amar Kumar of Pearson looks at how online learning innovations happening today will support tomorrow’s learners — and a 100-year career.

Starts at 7:48
The evolving adult-learning landscape: where is post-secondary education headed and what are the factors driving it there?
This panel from across ed tech, academia, government, and the private sector will explore the future of the post-secondary education ecosystem including models, technologies, and impact. They’ll examine how the needs of learners, employers, and civic leaders will increasingly require changes to the fabric of adult education. And, they’ll consider how this drives the evolution of the traditional higher education institution, the acceleration of self-directed learning, and the role of education companies in helping them do so.

Showcase Sessions
During the Pearson Showcase, attendees heard from leaders and partners across the education ecosystem working together to create more opportunities for learners

Creating a strategic education benefit that works for your employees and your business
UpSkill America and Pearson introduced a new toolkit for organizations to use in designing sustainable upskilling strategies and solutions.
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Learn more about Pearson Accelerated Pathways

The future of learning for one first-generation student
Growing up in Italy, education was always an important topic in Brenda Lupo’s home. Today, she’s a sophomore at the University of Florida’s communications program and the first person in her family to go to college. Learn how she’s navigating the ups and downs of this new experience.
Read Brenda's story
Learn more about Pearson Inclusive Access

One size doesn’t fit all
The individuals in your institution’s target audience aren’t just “students”. They have unique wants, needs, and expectations for instruction, campus amenities, and technology. A mass, “one-size-fits-all approach” is no longer enough.
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Learn more about Pearson Online Learning Services

Empowering students to prepare for life after college
96-percent of incoming freshman at the University of North Texas say that getting a good job is their primary goal for school. Learn how this university is helping their students find their path to a meaningful career.

The very real world of a K-12 online school
In order to deliver full-time online school, every aspect of the student experience has to be constructed with one thought in mind -- "how do we help learners make the connections needed for success?" From the cutting-edge software platform and dynamic online content, to the protocols for specially trained instructors and support teams, and social opportunities like virtual clubs and real-world field trips, the K-12 full-time online school presents an entirely new learning environment for students.

The outcomes that matter most don’t happen by accident … they happen by design
Pearson’s mission is to help people make progress in their lives through learning. But helping people to achieve the learning outcomes that matter most in life, like new knowledge and skills to support progression into further or higher education, or in a career, isn’t something that happens by accident. It happens by design.

Maybe it’s time for your own virtual school
Virtual education options provide an attractive alternative to the traditional classroom through greater flexibility in space and time, and the ability for personalized instruction. Discover more benefits of bringing your virtual school vision to life.

Nevertheless
This series, produced with Storythings, celebrates women both inside and outside of Pearson who are using technology to transform teaching and learning and improve outcomes for students.
Helping more learners, learn more
In 2013, Pearson made a commitment to efficacy: to identify the outcomes that matter most to students and educators, and apply evidence-based approaches to product design and development so we could have a greater impact on improving those outcomes.
A key part of that commitment was to publish, by 2018, audited research regarding the impact of the use of our products on outcomes. We invite you to explore our first set of efficacy reports that have been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
The future of skills: Employment in 2030
By 2030 the population of the US and the UK will be older. Emerging technologies like the Internet Of Things or 3D printing may have revolutionised supply chains and manufacturing, and more of us are predicted to live and work in cities.
Trends such as these have implications for the jobs, and skills, that will be in demand in 2030. The twin aims of this project, a partnership between Pearson, Nesta and Michael Osborne of the Oxford Martin School, is to generate quantified predictions of this future, and then to ask what that implies for learning.